There were two interviews floating around last month with Mr Maeda, Canon's camera boss.

In one of them he said that the 70D is coming 'without fail'.And in the other one, Mr. Maeda said that while Canon is developing a 7D successor, they are looking beyond a simple spec refresh.

Of course he did not share any details - but he did confirm both cameras.

Really? Both things can be true and there just be one camera. Corporate VP's are masters of the ambiguous statement. If they had wanted to say it clearly, they would have just pre-announced the 70D and 5DII, as they did with the 1D X.